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Getting Qualification Granted . . .

I apologize in advance if this is a redundant question, but I've searched and can't seem to find an answer to my question. When it says no test is required for a qualification and you may request it, how is it determined if you obtain it? I have close to 2000 hits w/99.3% accuracy but can't seem to get any qualifications granted. Thank you in advance.

As far as I know, the requester has to manually approve your qualification request. A worker can often request a qualification and you'll never see a response, as they either already have all the workers qualified that they need, or they don't see or care about the request, don't have time to go through the backlog of all the workers requesting the qual, they have a dummy qualification up so people can't work while the HIT is being tested, etc.

You should get an e-mail from mturk at the account you registered if a qualification is assigned. Someone please correct me if any of this is incorrect information.

As far as I know, the requester has to manually approve your qualification request. A worker can often request a qualification and you'll never see a response, as they either already have all the workers qualified that they need, or they don't see or care about the request, don't have time to go through the backlog of all the workers requesting the qual, they have a dummy qualification up so people can't work while the HIT is being tested, etc.

You should get an e-mail from mturk at the account you registered if a qualification is assigned. Someone please correct me if any of this is incorrect information.

I think I can correct a couple of points here, but it is not significant. Some qual requests are auto-granted when requested, and I don't always get an email when a qual is granted.

berly57, if you are going the through the Qualifications tab and requesting quals, one major thing to note is that a lot of requesters simply aren't around any longer. I would recommend pursuing quals for HITs that are currently active.

I'm still confused on this as well. I took a qualification test for a requestor and I'm 99% sure I passed it. A green box popped up and said, congratulations, I was granted a value of "7," but then the HIT disappeared. I've had similar situations like this happen before when trying to qualify for specific HITs. What's the deal?

Sometimes you can be granted a qualification at a lower value if you miss a certain number of questions as well. So say your hit calls for the "Booger Picker Qual" with a value of 8, and you take the test get qual and it's only a value of 7 then you still can't do the HIT. So if you saw the HIT under the All HITs link then after you took the qual you searched for it under All HITs available to you it won't appear if the value isn't the same.

You may be a doctor. But I'm the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.

so a year later...
I'm a newbie lurker and always wondering what I can possibly add to any thread on these forums. so far? nothing.
these qualifications are a mystery to me, and I've spent more time than I want to say searching for answers. I get the "request qual" stuff that's been written, and I'll probably never be given the secret handshake. Bottom line is I just keep plugging away...today I rec'd an mturk email saying I've been given, well here:
Qualification: Qualification_1
Requester: CeDEx - Nottingham
Qualification Value: 100
I haven't a clue, although I remember doing a survey and getting paid.
Anybody?